The document provides guidance to a highly motivated professor who has been job searching for over a year on developing an effective job search strategy. It recommends that she analyze job postings and her skills, identify her work personality and values, search various job sites and publications, leverage her professional network, and request informational interviews. The document also lists unconventional job search tactics ranging from hiring professionals to help to more creative approaches like wearing a sandwich board to promote herself.

2.  Stakeholder
 Highly motivated professor/dean has been job searching
for over a year
 Needs
 Apply new skills developed in recently completed
certificate program
 Obtain a position in Higher Education (higher ed.)
 Develop job search strategies
 Insight
 She’s passionate about higher ed and wants to continue
working in this field
 Not ready to change careers
 Hates not having a job

3.  Resume revision
 Analyze job postings. What specifically is the employer looking
for? Review your previous jobs and see how the skills fit
 Review class projects and classes from recently completed
certificate program and see how they fit.
 Identify your work personality and values
 What type of work is a natural for you?
 Who are you and what motivates you?
 What are your values?
 Look at these sources to find jobs:
 Start with the general search sites like Google, Yahoo, and Bing
 Job boards – Dice, Monster, Indeed
 Professional journals
 Professional web sites
 Newspapers

4.  Contact and inquire about jobs with:
 Professional colleagues
 Family and friends
 People at the gym
 Hair salon
 Instructors/professors from certificate program
 Request Informational interviews with people in
your field
 Explore internship experiences
 Keep a journal of what works, what doesn’t work
in your search and check it on a regular basis
 .

5.  Hire professional resume and cover letter service
 Hire a career coach
 Hire a head hunter/job placement professional
 Billboard summarizing skills and contact info
 Premium subscriptions to Job search sites
 Advertisement in professional journals and magazines
 Advertisement on mass transit (buses, trains, airports)
 Advertisement on Facebook, other social media
 Advertise in local newspapers
 Advertisement in shopping centers
 Locate and move to an areas that have positions
available, including other countries.
 .

6.  Distribute business cards or resumes in
colleges, businesses, public places
 Hang job search flyers in Colleges, businesses
 Wear a sandwich board stating your and stand
in public places, near colleges, near places of
business where you want to work

7.  Build and implement a sample of lockers in the
school (One grade? One physical area?)
 Students use test lockers and keep diary of
experience
 Designers observe students user lockers on at
least two occasions
 Administrators write weekly report about their
experience/observation
 Revise design based of field test

8.  Fairy godmother grants wish for the perfect job
 Magically fly to various locations for job
opportunities to become a “local candidate”
 Mind control over search committee/hiring
manager to hire stakeholder
 Super Searchbot that searched website and
found every opportunity related to skill set,
found the positions, and submitted applications
and kept a running record of position, response.
Sends daily updates

9.  List your interests, values, talents, and skills
 Define your unique talents and skills – develop a list of
keywords
 Visualize an ”ideal job” including:
 Location
 Hours of work
 The people you work with
 The way you manage
 The way you are managed
 The skills you use
 Challenges
 Values
 Culture
 Plug in keywords to onetcenter.org to see what careers are
applicable – create a career list

10.  Online job tests to help narrow search, identify careers
 Apply those talents and skills to career sites such as
http://www.mypursuit.com/ and
http://www.onetcenter.org/
 Using interests list and resources found on career sites, list
some alternative careers to hire education in addition to
Higher Ed jobs
 Ask people for their ideas, advice – show them your career
ideas and get their feedback
 Slip out the back, Jack
 Make a new plan, Pam
 You don't need to be Coy, Joy; Just listen to me
 Hop on the bus, Gus; You don't need to discuss much
 Just drop off the key, Leigh
 And get yourself free!

11.  Define your unique talents and skills – develop
a list of keywords
 Plug in keywords to onetcenter.org to see what
careers are applicable – create a career list
I think these go hand in hand: the brainstorming
and creative process, and then having a tool to
help implement the ideas and work towards a
solution.

12. Wear a sandwich board stating your and stand in
public places, near colleges, near places of
business where you want to work.
I think this strategy requires a giant step outside
the comfort zone. It requires a lot of courage
and overcoming limiting emotions:
 Fear of exposure (physical/emotional)
 Embarrassment
 Feeling desperate

13.  Fairy godmother grants wish for the perfect job
In addition to the fairy godmother’s wish
granting, completing some of the other
tasks, such as define your unique talents and
skills – develop a list of keywords, and then
visualizing the ideal job are important to
specify that perfect job!